The book is an evocative and crepuscular exploration not just of the people and places of Brighton but also the psycho-sexual geography of the artist themselves. Where they lay, pause, linger, what they see, feel and embrace, and what they leave in the echoes of desire, control and abandonment which are captured with such fine detail. A superb gift for anyone interested in sensual or fetish art, the colour and imagery seduce and draws you in, holding the viewers’ attention.
Keeping the emphasis on change, clearly detailing the harm caused by the current toxic situation but keeping the attention on hope, on what could and should be done by everyone interested in real equality to achieve it by working in solidarity. This is a book which offers us a way onward, to a better future.
the narrative is suffused with joy, skipping around with an inventiveness that carries the plot along.
It’s a fun read, with a narrative momentum which whisks you along like the Volks railway, although unlike that ancient locomotive this book takes you somewhere interesting, a rather fabulous fantastical Brighton, not quite the same, but oddly familiar.
At its heart it’s a love story, a passionate scream for intimacy in the face of barbaric hate and a rather thrilling romp thought the demimonde world of the Parisian underground Queer resistance . Fabulous escapism in more ways than one.
The Split is a great book, really funny, with a huge focus on family and found family in particular, showing us how important our friendships are…
It’s a story about hope and needs, about unexpressed queer desire and how a stranger can become a focus for a world out of reach.
Barker and Scheele combine their talents again to serve this entertaining book about sexuality which manages to tease gently along the balance between being erotic and historically informative.
This perfectly poised story about cinema, flâneurs, and queer love takes us into the world of the ‘Maestro’ auteur and creative.
Rogers writes with warmth, her prose giving us an intimacy with the characters dreams, aspirations, the breathless passion of abandoning yourself to hot, wild love
